By Jessica Marcy Kaiser Health News States in the South and Mountain West, which traditionally have the lowest rates of primary care physicians, could struggle to ...
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By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News The average adult fills about a dozen prescriptions and refills every year; after age 65, they fill more than 30 ...
Read More »Pennsylvania must move forward with health-care reform
By state Rep. Josh Shapiro (PA-153) With the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in Washington, the debate now turns to the states as we ...
Read More »Some Medical Practices Move To Monthly Membership Fees For Patients
By Michelle Andrews Just about everyone agrees that the way we pay for primary care needs fixing. Under the current insurance model, doctors get paid ...
Read More »Physicians Partnering With Gift of Life Donor Program to Improve Organ and Tissue Donation in the Region
By Gweneth O’Shaughnessy The role of the physician is essential to the organ and tissue donation process. Routinely, Gift of Life is notified of a ...
Read More »Health Care Reform Adds Requirements for Physicians
Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), also referred to as the health care reform act, is currently being challenged on ...
Read More »Structuring Device Development and License Agreements
By John W. Jones, Esq. Federal government scrutiny over device development and license arrangements between the medical device industries and physicians and settlements between major ...
Read More »The HEALTH Act Brings Protection Back to Patients
By Congressman Phil Gingrey, M.D. (GA-11) It is estimated that one in every ten dollars spent within the health care system will be used on ...
Read More »Accountable Care Organizations: The End of Innovation in Medicine?
By Alan Lyndon In his latest Health Policy Outlook, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) health policy expert and practicing physician Scott Gottlieb takes a look at accountable care ...
Read More »Some Doctors Dispute Benefits Of Early Diagnosis
By Michelle Andrews Kaiser Health News In a new book, “Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health,” Dartmouth researchers and physicians H. Gilbert ...
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